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"Perpendicular" Definition

noun

A device, such as a plumb line, used in marking the vertical from a given point.
A perpendicular position.
A vertical or nearly vertical line or plane.
Mathematics A line or plane perpendicular to a given line or plane.
A line at right angles to a line or plane (as of the horizon).

adjective

Being at right angles to the horizontal; vertical. See Synonyms at vertical.
Mathematics Intersecting at or forming right angles.
Of or relating to a style of English Gothic architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by emphasis of the vertical element.
Standing at right angles to the plane of the horizon exactly upright.
Being at right angles to a given line or plane.

adverb

In a perpendicular position.

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